genteel
Example Sentences
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Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.
There is nothing folksy, never mind pastoral or genteel, about Crews.
From Los Angeles Times
After Signature’s return to live theater in November with a boisterous staging of Jonathan Larson’s “Rent,” some may experience the genteel sophistication of “She Loves Me” as a bit, well, tame.
From Washington Post
Ottawa is known for ice skaters on the frozen Rideau Canal and a generally more genteel style of politics than that in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times
Canadian politics may in fact be more genteel than in many other places, but not because Canadians are innately kinder.
From New York Times
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